The technologies you listed are used to build, deploy and maintain frontend applications. Even if you build a pure frontend app with no backend whatsoever, not

The technologies you listed are used to build, deploy and maintain frontend applications. Even if you build a pure frontend app with no backend whatsoever, not a single api call, you still need some infrastructure. So I understand when FE job ads require some devops. That being said, I did google the first ad and it is in fact ridiculous to call that position FE. The second list from your post is much more sensible. > Before when i used to apply for jobs, i would get some kind of html/css test. Now when i apply i get a hacker-rank test to deal with some algorithms, and i have to choose from js,ts,python,c++ etc. I think it says it all. It says that you'll be writing business logic on the frontend, and you can't do that with just html/css.